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“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― The Winter Room
The book needs you.”
― The Winter Room
“Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”
― How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry
One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”
― How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry
“The weak would never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh & ungenerous kingdom & that women gives themselves only to men of resolute spirit, who provides the security they need in order to face life”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.... And this was most vexing of all," he noted, "HAPPINESS ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED.”
― Into the Wild
― Into the Wild
“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
― Cat's Eye
― Cat's Eye
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